Where: Fulton County, Illinois (40.5° N, 89.9° W: paleocoordinates 4.8° S, 24.8° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Carbondale Formation, Westphalian D (309.8 - 307.5 Ma)
• Bituminous coal from the Colchester (no. 2) coal
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: mire or swamp; lithified coal
Size class: macrofossils
Preservation: adpression, original chitin
Collection methods: chemical, peroxide, sieve
• Repository: Ulster Museum (BELUM)
Primary reference: A. J. Jeram. 1994. Carboniferous Orthosterni and their relationships to living scorpions. Palaeontology 37:513-550 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 153605: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 31.12.2013
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
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